Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism, expressed a wish to be buried on Mount Carmel in Palestine, according to a sheaf of documents including letters to his friends and collaborators shown to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent by M. Reichenfeld, executor of his will. The proposal has been made that Dr. Herzl’s remains be transferred from Vienna to Mount Scopus in Palestine.
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